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(No Model.)

' J. MULLER. LOOP 'IIE POR DBGORATIVL SCALES 0R SIMILAR ARTICLES. No. 401,

. Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

N. PETERS. FhullrLilhagraphnr, Wnshnginn, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPHINE MLLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LOOP-TIE FOR DECORATIVE SCARFS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,051, dated April 9, 1889.

Application led December 26, 1888. Serial No. 294,657. (No model.)

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osEPHINE MLLER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Loop-Tie for Decorative Scarfs or Similar Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention is specially adapted for use in draping decorative scarfs applied to sofas, lounges, &c.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective view showing the tie applied as a scarf extending across the arm or head of a lounge, and Figs. 2 and `3 are perspective views of different forms of the tie.

The article is formed of three parts, A B O, constructed and connected as follows: The ornamental cord B, constituting the body of the tie, is made several inches (say twelve) i'n length to adapt it to pass around a scarf and through the loop A, and yet leave a longer portion pendent from the latter, as shown in Fig. l. The relatively-short loop A is made of such width or thickness and of such material that it forms distinctively the most important ornamental portion of the tie. The preferred construction of loop is shown in Fig. 3, the same being composed of twisted braided strands of silk, cotton, worsted, or metal threads.

In Fig. 2 l show a modification, the loop A being made of a ring (not shown) of some rigid substance-such as wood--covered with decorative material, preferably metal, silver, cotton or worsted thread crocheted thereon. One end of the cord B is permanently connected with the loop A. The ornament C, at

tached to the other or free end of said cord, is preferably va tassel, and not only serves as an thereon.

ornamental terminal extension of the same, but also as a weight, which tends to hold the cord drawn sufficiently* close around the scarf.

I n applying my ornamental tie to a decorative scarf, D, Fig. l, the latter is gathered at the point selected and the loop A placed The ornament O is then passed around the scarf and upward beneath its lower edge and through the loop A. The cord B being then drawn as tightly as required, the free end is allowed to hang pendent, as shown. The loop A thus lies across the gathered portionof the scarf D, and by such position, coupled with its size and construction, constitutes aAhighly-ornamental appendage of the same. A scarf may thus be expeditiously and gracefully draped in a manner greatly enhancing its decorative or ornamental effect.

To further define the patentable limits of my invention, l willstate that a short and thin doubled cord having an ornamental appendage has been employed as a pendant or pull for shades or curtains applied to rollers; but such articles thus differ from my scarf-tie not only in essential features of construction, butin adaptation for use, as well as the use itself.

What I claim, therefore, is-

As an article of manufacture, the tie for decorative scarfs, consisting of the broad ornamental loop A and the relatively-long cord B, attached thereto at one end, and having the ornamental appendage C attached to its free end, as shown and described.

JOSEPHINE MULLER.

Witnesses:

J. F. ACKER, Jr., C. SEDGWICK. 

